Charlotteand I will be newlyweds, while you and Miss Costello play my adopteddaughters from my first marriage...." - 10 -John...Thompson smiled as Charlotte Kent ran her hand over his head andtutted."You can grow your hair out now, y'know," she said, "you're not in themilitary anymore, Johnny." Old habits," he replied. "I got used to the buzzcut so I kept it when Iresigned."It was several hours after the mission briefing and they were on thecouch in his small apartment. “I’m just visiting. I grew up here, but I live in Hawaii now,” Betsy answered. “I’m at the university working on my PhD.”“Nice,” Carl said.He already had his PhD in computer science. His research had been in the area of optimizing operating systems for multi-core processors. It was an area of study that had landed him a very nice job in a company that manufactured computers.There was a moment of awkward silence before he asked, “What are you studying?”“Sharks,” Betsy said.“That’s kind of an. You are coming home with me for Thanksgiving. You can be my 'date." Since there was no school that week, she had arranged to have the two days before Thanksgiving off and suggested I get the time off too. She reminded me it was all hands on deck the day after Thanksgiving. Even though it was never called "Black Friday" at the time (as I remember it), Weinstocks was open at 8 AM and was going to close at 11 PM. "Now, that I have your holiday plans set (at that point she got on top of me and. She was maybe a little older than Mom, but she looked strikingly familiar. The light was playing on her hair and it shimmered in the sunlight. I blinked and shook my head. She was smiling at me."Can ... may I help you?" I inquired, "And how did you find me? I closed up the passage."She laughed and said, "Well, it was easy. I knew you'd be drawn up here. As for the hidden lock, I built it."I looked closer at the woman. Her clothes were not of this era; they were very old fashioned. I turned up.